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White settlers first arrived in the Vicksburg area in the early 1830s, and in 1849 the village was first platted. By 1861, Vicksburg had multiple businesses established in its downtown. Growth increased starting in 1870 with the arrival of the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad. Through the rest of the 19th century, the downtown commercial area ...
The siege of Vicksburg (May 18 – July 4, 1863) was the final major military action in the Vicksburg campaign of the American Civil War.In a series of maneuvers, Union Major General Ulysses S. Grant and his Army of the Tennessee crossed the Mississippi River and drove the Confederate Army of Mississippi, led by Lieutenant General John C. Pemberton, into the defensive lines surrounding the ...
Shea, William L., and Terrence J. Winschel, Vicksburg Is the Key: the Struggle for the Mississippi River. Univ. of Nebraska, 2003. ISBN 0-8032-4254-9; Soley, James Russell, "Naval Operations in the Vicksburg Campaign," in Johnson, Robert Underwood, and Clarence Clough Buel, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. New York: Century, 1887–1888.
The Battle of Milliken's Bend was fought on June 7, 1863, as part of the Vicksburg Campaign during the American Civil War. Major General Ulysses S. Grant of the Union Army had placed the strategic Mississippi River city of Vicksburg, Mississippi, under siege in mid-1863.
This tornado was the first to hit the city since records began in 1950. In 2023, Gaylord's high school softball team won their first state championship, defeating Vicksburg 8–3, the team set a MHSAA home run record (72) in their championship season, the team would repeat as champions again in 2024, defeating Vicksburg 3–2. [16] [17]
Before the Civil War, President James Buchanan took a weak position amid a looming South secession crisis. [1] Secretary of State Lewis Cass of Michigan, a 78-year-old elder statesman who had been Michigan's U.S. senator and governor of Michigan Territory, resigned from Buchanan's cabinet in protest, remarking that "he had seen the Constitution born and now feared he was seeing it die".
[10] [11] Prior to this consolidation, the village of Salina had already been added to the City of East Saginaw. The consolidation of the City of Saginaw became effective with the election of officers on March 12, 1890. [11] The provisions of the city charter were established by the same act of the legislature that provided for the consolidation.
Vicksburg is a village in Kalamazoo County, Michigan, United States. The population was 3,706 at the 2020 census . The west part of the village is in Schoolcraft Township and the east part is in Brady Township .